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FASHIONS FOR SUMMER.
WARM WEATHER CARMENTS THAT
ARE NEW AND ATTRACTIVE.
Becoming Shirt Waist of Ecru Batiste
", for Misses—Comfortable apd Tasteful
.F Morning Gown of White Dimity that is
- & Marked Feature of the Season’s Styles.
C{ This style of shirt waist, writes May
Manton, is particularly becoming to
m misses. As represented ecru
iste was the material selected, with
collar, cuffs, belt, box-plait and tie or
striped batiste showing ecru and red.
A box-plait finishes the right-front
through which button-holes are
orked to effect the closing with studs
or battons. The back is gathered at
the top and joined to a yoke lining
gth straight lower edge, the double
ointed yoke being placed over the
gatbers and stitched firmly down on
lower edge thus ensuring a durable
finish. A rolling collar completes the
eck. Plaits or a casing and draw
adjust the fulness at the waist
line, and the dress skirt is worn over
e lower edge. The belt encircling
Lho waist can be made of the material
as illustrated. The waists may be worn
with any one of the pretty leather or
metal belts of this season’s style. The
sleeves are but moderately full and are
gathered at their upper and lower
edges, straight cuffs finishing the wrists
and openings being made in back of
sleeves that are finished with pointed
under and over-laps. Percale, cam
brie, lawn, dimity, organdy, and ging
ham in stripes, checks, figures and
plain effects are suitable fabries for
developing with machine stitching as
the accepted finish.
To make this waist for a miss of
fourteen years will require three and
one-fourth yards of thirty-six-inch
material.
Tasteful Morning Gown.
No one feature of the season’s styles
is more marked, says May Manton,
than the Russian or one-sided effect
shown in this comfortable and taste
ful gown for morning wear. As illus
trated in the large engraving, the ma
terial is white dimity and the band of
openwork embroidery is lined with
violet lawn, which adds the essential
touch of color, yet launders so per
fectly that it in nowise interferes with
practical service. The ribbon at the
waist is of the same shade as the lawn,
and both neck and sleeves are finished
with frills of embroidery.
The pattern shows front, back and
side gores besides the fitted front for
lining, and two pieces of the sleeve.
The back has no forms, simplicity
being the characteristic sought. The
lining is cut to a trifle below the waist
line, and should be fitted with care,
closing at the centre. The full front
is adjusted over it and laps at the left
shoulder, the line being’continued to
the edge of the skirt, a feature which
renders it peculiarly well suited to
stout or short figures. The bottom of
the skirt is left plain, simply faced
with a fitted facing of the material.
The sleeves are in two pieces, the
slight puff and the close portion being
cut in one. &
For home wear during the summer,
lawn, gingham, organdie, lappet lawn
and percale al' are suitable. For
steamer use nothing rivals cashmere
and light-weight flannel, the latter
baving the advantage of laundering ‘
perfectly, if average can b taken.
To make this gown for a lady in the
medium size will require seven yards
of the forty-four-inch material.
| Felt Hats for Rural Wear.
‘ Long-haired felt hats, round or
~ Tyrolean in shape, are most appro
k m rural wear. When the
E.‘ jofi felt is brown or blue and
~ ethe long Bairs are black, a shot effect
- is produced that g.es well with tweed
dresses. Quills and rib! s are all
i
-t
MISSES’ SHIRT
W
AIST.
LADIES’ MORNING GOWN.
one needs for the country; but one
must be careful in their arrangement.’
A scant rosette, or a ruffled or ill
placed quill, will stamp the hat as
homemade, and may cause the wearer
to look like a crazed wild African, or a
tame farmyard framp. See that the
quills stand up saucily; and renew
them as soon as they appear rufiled.
Housewife. ,
The Newest Thing in
~ Changeable tints remain in high
favor for the newest petticoats. The
petticoat is a half yard narrower than
last season, but it is trimmed pro
fusely, and occasionally a flexible
wire is bound in the hem to give it a
commendable flare. A fashionable
finish is a deep flounce overlaid with
triple bands of black velvet and put
on the petticoat full, with shirred
heading. A brown silk brocaded in
pink rosebuds and ragged robins is
trimmed in a flounce that has a deep
insertion in guipure lace pattern laid
over a broad band of pink satin rib
bon. A very pretty petticoat in blue
and gold illuminated tints has van
dyked ruffles run with longitudinal
tucks to within an inch of the ruffle
edge, which gives a fan cascade bor
der.
The Season’s Sleeves.
They all fit tightly to the arm and are
long with points, scallops or slashed
tabs over the wrists, where they may
widen or not. Chiffon and thin silk
sleeves are shirred in the glove fashion
back and front.
- Full ruffles of lace, chiffon, em
broidery and plaited silk are worn at
the wrists. Plain dresses have what
may be called an enlarged coat sleeve
with the full effect very short. Caps
and epaulettes are of trimmed tabs,
frills, plaitings, ete,
Dainty Girls’ Dress,
Figured challie, insertion and lace
are daiutily combined in this pretty
frock, The full front and back are
arranged over fitted linings that join
the under-arm and shoulder seams, the
closing being effected in centre-back
with hooks and eyes, three rows of
evenly placed shirring disposing the
fulness at the waist-line. The upper
portion of the waist is overlaid with
material to square yoke depth, to
which is applied the becoming bertha,
uniquely shaped in rounded outline,
lace and insertion decorating the free
edges. Short puffs of moderate size
are gathered top and bottom and
mounted over the fitted linings that
are covered with the material, the
waists finishing with a single band of
insertion and lace. At the neck is a
plain collar band with soft frill of lace
above. The full skirt is gathered at
the top and sewed to the lower edgé
of the waist. A placket is finished at
the centre-back’and bands of insertion
are employed as decoration.
Pretty summer dresses can be made
in this style from any one of the sea
sonable fabrics now in vogue, and can
be handsomely trimmed with lace, in
sertion, ribbon, braid or embroidery.
To make this dress for a girl of eight
GIRLS' DRESS.
years will require three and one-half
yards of thirty-six-inch materials,
Little Capes.
Little capes are so comfortable and
dressy looking that every one likes to
wear them. Some of the very prettiest
ones are made of cream lace or chiffon.
One exceedingly handsome one is made
with a yoke of beaded material with a
flounce of black lace, and underneath
this a frill of crimped tafeta in cream
color.
SLAVONIAN LAUNDERINC.
Mangle Consists of a Clumsy Log and
Rollers, Propelled by Frall Women,
Slavonia is in Austria, or rather in
the extreme south of Hungary, but its
people are nearly all Servian. Its
plains stretch for miles in an endless
expanse of perfectly flat country. Its
mud is fathomless, its women’s daily
task of scouring and fighting against
the dirt that the “men folks” bring in
from out of doors on their shoes is
never done. Between times there is
the mangle.
This is a stout plank about seven
feet long, raised to a height of two
feet upon rough hewn logs. The mid
dle of the plank is gripped by a frame
work rising from the floor to a height
of five feet, with three great beams
running across it, the whole fastened
together with pegs. Upon the plank
are laid two rollers, and on these rests
a half log of wood just fitting between
the sides of the frame. This weightis
smooth on its under surface, rough
hewn above, and is provided at each
end with three pegs which serve as
handles.
~ The ironer, when ready to begin,
takes a sheet, for instance, winds it
tightly around one of the rollers and
puts an old ironing cloth around the
outside. Then, lifting one end of the
log and placing the roller under it,
she works the weight to and fro, until
the wrinkles are all presumably
smoothed away. Then the sheet isre
moved, folded and put away, and the
next ‘‘ironing”’—perhaps another sheet
or three or four towels, or half a dozen
handkerchiefs—substituted. The sec
ond roller acts merely to balance the
log, although twoironers can work the
machine, one at each end.
The woman who irons is as pie
turesque as her tools, when she
wears the Slavonian peasant cos
tume. Her shoes are flat and heelless;
she has no stockings, but winds linen
about her lower limbs and binds it in
A SLAVONIAN WOMAN IRONING.
place with thongs, leaving’a space of
two inches or so bare below the edge
of her kilted skirt of coarse, undyed
linen. Her yellow, sheepish jacket is
ornamented with patches of red and
purple leather, quilted on with bright
yarns, and her head is covered with a
gaudy kerchief. Almost as often, how
ever, she is stripped of her finery, ex
cept on Sundays, and wears at her
work bedraggled clothing of western
Europe’s unattractive work-a-day pat
tern.
Birds as Seed Carriers.
Two centuries ago the Dutch de
stroyed every nutmeg tree in the Mo
luccas, in order to enjoy a monopoly
of the business, having planted the
trees in their own+possessions. In spite
of their most earnest efforts, however,
the islands were constantly being re
stocked. For along time the thing
was a mystery, but at length it was
solved. The doves of that quarter of
the world are of large size, and readily
swallow the seeds of the nutmeg.
They traverse wide stretches of sea
and land in a few hours, and deposit
the seeds not only uninjured, but bet
ter fitted for germination by the heat
and moisture of the bird’s system. By
a similar process thousands of acres of
land have been covered with trees of
different kinds, the birds acting as
nature’s agents in the dissemination
of plants. Darwin found in six grains
of earth adhering to the feet of a plover
three different kinds of seeds, and ia
mud sticking to the feet of ducks and
geese shot in England he found the
seeds of plants peculiar to the Victoria
Nyanza, in Central Africa, thus proving
not only the extent of migration, but
also the possibility of plants appear
ing in strange localities through the
agency of these birds. In the mud
sticking to the feet of a Texas steer
the seeds of five different kinds of
weeds and grasses common in Texas
were found by a microscopist after the
arrival of the animal in New York,—
Colman’s Rural World.
Oldest Church in New England.
The history of the first parish of
Dorchester, now a part of Boston, is
the history of one of the oldest churches
in New England. The parish was
organized June 23, 1636, and the first
church was built in 1641. The second
church was built in 1646, and the third
in 1677. In 1743 they erected their
fourth church, and on May 16, 1816,
the corner-stone of the church burned
a year ago was laid. Now a beautiful
reproduction of the old church is ready
for dedication.
All the human beings that everlived
could find standing room in Pennsyl
vania.
He Envied the Giraffe.
“Father, if I had a neck as long as
that I could reach up to the top shelf
in the jam closet.” y
OUR NEW YORK LETTER
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. ]
’ “Any young man who expects te
~succeed in New York,” says Mayor
BArong, ‘‘must come here determined
%o rely upon himself. He must push
out for himself, and not depend upon
his friends. The boy who does that
is sure to succeed if he has good
principles and good habits. He must,
however, bend - every energy
toward accomplishing what he
sets out to do, and he muss
be economical in respect to
money, time and strength. If he does
this and has it in him he will have a
great success, for there is no place
where the possibilities of great sue
cesses are more than right here. I
don’t think the place where the boy is
raised has much to do with it. The
manner of the boy’s rearing often has
more. The country boy has, as arule,
had the advantage of being made to
work. He is usually a poor boy, and
his nerve and muscle have usually been
developed by adversity. This may be the
case with the city boy, but in many in
stances his early life has been too easy.
His parents have pampered him. He
does not know the value of a dollar
until he learns it by experience after
he has gone into business, and in this
way he starts in behind the horny
handed son of the country. The coun
try boy’s life has tended to the devel
opment of self-reliance in him, and he
comes here with the determination to
stand alone.”’ |
The mere announcement that the
New York Association for Improving
the Condition of the Poor actually
needs $lO,OOO to support ten vacation
schools for children during the sum
mer season should be enough to bring
the necessary funds into its treasury
at once. The vacation schools con
ducted by this admirable organization
were attended last year by more than
100,000 children who, but { ri‘s kind
ly ministrations, would hae suf
fered all the hardship and dis
tress of helpless idleness in the
hot streets of the ecity. But thou
sands of other little ones eager to en
joy its generous aid were turned away
for lack of sufficient accommodations,
and it is to provide for these that the
association now appeals for funds to
open additional schools. If one wants
to startaway on a summer vacation with
a thought that will make the sunshine
all the brighter one can do so easily
and surely by allowing one’s checkbook
to give the consciousness of having
contributed to the support of this,
which ranks among the best and most
beautiful of all our public charities.
The story to the effect that Freder
ick Law Olmstead was to bring suit
against J. J. Astor to recover buried
treasure is interesting as illustrating
the way error spreads. The fact is
that several years ago Mr. Olmstead
and a party of friends were spending
the summer on an island on the
Maine coast. To while away the time
one of the party wrote a story of
buried treasure to fit a cave on the
island, working in the names of
several well-known people, including
that of Mr. Astor. The story was
never intended for publication, but a
guest of the Olmsteads at the time re
ported it and it got into print. It has
been published several times since,
and the changes have been rung upon
it until there is little left of the story
in its original form except the names
of Mr. Astor and Mr. Olmstead.
Nothing can more surely bring ridi
oule upon sincere religious effort—
thereby nullifying its effectiveness—
than such exhibitions as that given
the other night by a Salvation Army
officer in this city at a big headquar
ters meeting. This officer broke the
hymn-singing record by singing fifty
nine songsin fifty-eight minutes, and
in the resulting enthusiasm and exal
tation the successful man was assailed
by a congratulatory throng. The
natural inference from a performance
of this sort is that any man who may
now develop an ability to sing sixty
hymaus in fifty-eight minutes will here
by prove that he is a greater instru
ment for the salvation of his fellow
beings than the hero of last night.
This is nauseating to good sense. It
must serve to damage the regard in
which the Army is held by its sober
minded friends.
Mr. Depew is going to have the bal
lot framed upon which he recently
voted on §75,000,000 of New York
Central railroad stock. It is the
largest vote ever given at a stock
holders’ meeting by one person, and it
may appropriately be hung beside the
famous check of William H. Vander
bilt for $6,000,000 which he drew off
hand upon one of his bank accounts.
Mayor Strong makes a very fair
point in reply to the municipal reform
ers in New York, who are criticising
his administration. He says that no
less than 19 members of the committee
of 70 have refused places in the mu
nicipal administration which the mayor
urged them to accept. Possibly these
critics might have had things to suit
them had they accepted office.
The death of a broker on the
floor of the Stock Exchange here,
is the third death that has occurred
under similar circumstances in this
city within a few years. It isa good
place for people afflicted with_ heart
trouble to keep out of. The scenes
there are altogether too exciting for
the welfare and health of delicate peo
ple.
/l
Gov. Black allowed no less than 307
legislative bills to die on his hands by
omitting to affix his signature to them.
It is rather a heavy mortality in bills,
but the mourners are not numerous.
Commissioner Collis is pushing for.
ward the work of making beautiful
parks of the boulevard spaces which
were for a decade a pack of howling
desolations. Several of the interior
areas were completed last year, and
their present verdant loveliness is a
promise of the continuous stretch of
shaded parkways. Within a few
weeks the inside walk, fringed with
turf and shaded by the arching elms,
will extend unbroken from Fifty-ninth
to 105th street, where the work
is temporarily halted by the intoler
able (f:lay of tLe subway commis
sion in putting the telegraph wires
underground and removing the un
sighily poles from the centre of the
caeet. Whether Commissioner Collis
can wake these high-salaried function
aries to their duty before their terms
of office expire in November is prob
lematical. That he will do his utmost
in that direction is certain, for his de
sire to complete the work so well be
gun has already been demonstrated.
The collapse of a five-story unfin
ished factory building in this city, with
the loss of life, adds one more to a list
of accidents such as, it was hoped,
won! Y . apurde B, <tnessod =
So far as known, the disaster was di
rectly due to the filling of huge water
tanks which occupied the two upper
stories. These tanks were being
| tested, and the enormous weight
- proved too much for the girders. The
' result was a complete collapse of the in
l terior. There is, of course, no more
- excuse for this latest Buddensiek dis
- aster than for any of those which pre
- ceded it, shocking the community and
I causing official scandal. The work of
- construction was manifestly inspected
hastily or by incompetent men. The
- secret of the catastrophe will be found
»in an inadequate corps of inspectors for
‘the general activity in building opera
tions. The patience of the people will not
much longer stand the strain to which
it is subjected in this matter of human
sacrifice, deadly peril and red tape.
We shall now probably have another
experience of indictments dismissed
and explanations that fail to explain.
It is a pity that those employes of
the Boston street department who are
so indignant over the proposition to
array them in uniform could not have
been here to witness the recent parade
of the street cleaning department.
Twenty-five hundred men, at
tired in spotless white, each with a
flower in his coat lapel, marched in
alignment as perfect as that maintained
by any regiment of soldiers. Hun
dreds of boys and girls who have
voluntarily joined in the depart
ment’s efforts to keep the streets
clean were in the procession. There
were, beside the army of men, 850
carts in spick and span condition,
street sprinklers, sweepers, basket
wagons, hose carts, and all the para
phernalia connected with the cleaning
of streets, making a very effective
spectacle. Crowds lined the streets
from end to end of the line of march,
applauding and cheering Commissioner
Waring and his men heartily.
New York has reason to be proud
of its police force. Imgeneral appear
ance, in marching and in numbers, the
last annual parade of the force as at
present constituted, surpassed all for
mer exhibitions. As the men, nearly
3000 strong, without leaving the city
unprotected, swung up Broadway on
a newly-wet pavement, with all the pre
cision of soldiers and clothed in their
new summer uniforms,they presented a
spectacle which, it is not too much to
assert, would have compelled the ad
miration of any city in the world.
Chief Conlin was justified in throwing
out his chest an.inch or two beyond the
normal as he rode, astride the charger
Prince, at the head of this magnificent
column. He was giving to the citizens
of New York an ocular demonstration of
improvement in the rank and file of the
police. Certain it is fhat the general im
pression conveyed to the mind of
the spectatoy was one of surprise
that the twelve months and more of
utter demoralization in the police
board had not been visibly communi
cated to the force. While perfection
on dress parade is by no means an
assurance of perfection of duty, it
would be wholly impossible for
an inferior body of men to pre
sent throunghout the spectacle of this
annual review. The rank and file
seem to be all right. The borough of
Manhattan will be the envy of ali the
other boroughs in the Greater New
York. And this not because of, but
despite, the police commission.
Fifteen free public baths have been
opened at fifteen convenient points on
the North and East river fronts, dis
tributed from the Battery to 130th
street one side and to 134th on the
other. The water is rapidly arriving at
a temperature safe for all, and the
steady increase in the number of these
bathing places for the tenement
dwellers is most welcome and whole
some, as their popularity is equal in
value to the continuous efforts of the
corps of health board inspectors.
Rev. Dr. J. N. Hallock of this city
has declined the presidency of the
Westminster university of Colorado at
a salary of 810,000, because he feels
that his duty remains with the Chris
tian At Work, a journal which under
his editorship has become important
in its field.
Commander Booth-Tucker is in a
certain sense justified in objecting to
his conviction as a keeper of a dis
orderly house, but there is no getting
around the fact that the headquarters
of the Salvation Army in New York
and elsewhere makes an awful racket.
if you want a brick of the old Grant
tomb, just send to Mayor Strong for
the sonvenir. He has more of them
than any hat can hold.
Large Bodies Move Siowly.
COYCORD, N. H., June 18—James Sin
clatr of this place was indicted at the May
term on a charge of forging the name of a
physician now a resident of Concord to a
postal order at North Woodstock, and was
remanded to jail in default of 8200rgfil. He
has been there since because there' are no
funds available to call in a jury to try his
case. Following the advice of his counsel,
he has now pleaded nolo contendere and
been sentenced to the house of correction at
Goffstown for a year and a day. Sinclair’s
lawyer advised him to sccePt a sentence be
cause as there was no jury in and it was un
certain when there would be any money for
summoning one it was better for him to be
gin serving what time he would have to put
in than to wait for Congress to uppropr&to
money. 3
Pogr Show for Creditors.
PROVIDENCE, R. L, June 17—A petition
has been flled in the appellate court by the
creditors of St. Onge & O’Neil, the recently
suspended Westminster street retail dry
goods house, asking that the firm be de
clared insolvent. The petition will be heard
on June 26. The firm’s liabilities exceed the
assets by £23,000.
No Cause for Interference.
HARTFORD,Conn., June 17—The applica
tion of Thomas Kippie, under sentence to be
hanged Jaly 14 for the murder of his wife
was heard by the board of pardons, which
decided not to interfere with the sentence.
e
When you should think of planting a few ORNAMEN
TAL TREES or setting out some choice SHRUBS where they
will look the best. A few HARDY FLOWERS may be worked
in here and there, and a judicious selection of VINES for the Ve
randa made at this time. Nothing will add so much to the valae
of your place as a little money in LANDSCAPE GARDEN
ING, and just how to spend it to the best advantage is where
we come in. Advice costs you nothing, catalogue costs you
nothing. 'Write us just how we can serve you.
THE READING NURSERY,
Established 1854.
JACOB W. MANNING, Proprietor,
Reading, Mass. i
KNICKERBOCKEP
is the time\
WASHINGTON LETTER
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE. ]
TaE VaLvE oF THE LEeEssoxn—How
ever popular opinion may regard the
sugar trust for its alleged part in in
fluencing semators at the time of the
adoption of the Wilson Tariff law, and
however acute may be the general re
gret that the matter cannot be probed to
the' bottom, the trials for contempt thus
far disposed of in Washington are not
unfruitful of beneficial results. No man
in whatever direction his sympathies
may lie, who has followed closely and
intelligently the evidence adducedand
the judge’s rulings, can reasonably
quarrel with the outcome of the three
cases thus far disposed of. Mr. Chap
man, the broker, was found guilty of
contempt because the questions he
refused to answer had a direct bearing
upon the subject of inquiry—the alleged
speculations of senators. Mr. Have
meyer was found not guilty be
cause the information he failed to give
concerned matters of which he was ig
norant, and because no witness can
be compelled to do the work of law
yers or investigators, in looking up
matters of record. Mr. Searles was
declared innocent because the ques
tions to which he declined to re
spond were beyond the jurisdiction of
the Senate committee to ask. In short,
no matter what Messrs. Havemeyer
and Searles may have been guilty of in
connection with the sugar schedule of
the Tariff bill, they were not legally
guilty of contempt. All doubt on this
point has been swept away. The net
results of these trials appears to be
that the Senate hereafter, in prosecut
ing any investigation of this character,
which demands the presence of outside
witnesses, must conduct its inquiry
with due regard to the rights and pro
tection which such witnesses would
enjoy in a court, or find its haphazard
methods overthrown later on its own
appeal. It is held that under a
supreme court ruling the Sen
ate can litself commit a recalcitrant
witness to jail and keep him there
until he is prepared to answer its
questions. Unquestionably, however,
this power can only be exercised
where the questions involved are com
petent ones. The privilege of the
writ of habeas corpus is a constitu
tional privilege, not to be suspended
‘““unless when in cases of rebellion or
invasion the public safety may require
it.” In case of such commitment,
therefore, habeas corpus would be
resorted to, and the regularity
of the question at issue would
be determined, after all, in
court; thus bringing ‘he whole matter
to just that point which it has now
reached through indictment by the
grand jury. The caseis clear enough.
A witness has certain inalienable
rights in the common law. The Sen
ate must respect these rights; and by
so doing will gain in dignity and obvi
ate the humilitating experience of be
ing turned down by a criminal judge.
This is a question wholly apart from
the guilt or innocence of either sugar
trust or suspected senators.
Way THE CouNTRY WiLL Staxp It—
The conservative Washington corres
pondent of the Baltimore Sun makes a
vigorous attack upon Mr. Reed’s policy
of inaction, in the House. He claims
that many things might be done by
the lower branch, such as passing a
bankruptey bill. As for the Cuban re
solutions,those could be kept back just
as well with the House organized for
business. As for the minority, he
says: ‘‘There never was a minority
in a legislative body so effectually de
prived of nearly every vestige of con
stitutional and parliamentary right as
the Democratsin the Hcuse of Repre
sentatives. The speaker even at times
brutally denies them the sacred right
of appeal. Doubtless he would be not
less ruthless with individual members
on his own side should anyof them
have the temerity to oppcse him.”” This
outbreak shows that the spectacle of Mr.
Reed’s despotic ways is galling to many
people whoare far from b :ing populistic
or even silver Demotrats in their feel-
ings. The Republican majority in the
House are at bottom responsible, if this
course proves injurious tothe Republi
can party. The speaker could not act
this way if he had no majority back of
him. But of that majority Mr. Reed
is foremost, and his personal respon
sibility is larger than that of any ether
member. The spectacle is far from
pleasing, yet the country will stand it
without much complaint if the results
are to its liking.
A Remore CoNTENTION Senator
Morgan’s contention that the House
violates the constitution when,lacking
a quorum, it adjourns for more than a
singie day, is so re:
more appropriately i.o referred to the
schoolmen of the ecleventh century
than to the law committee of the Sen-
ate. The general opinion in Wash
ington is that law and precedent fully
sustain Speaker Reed. The real point is
that these periodical adjournments of
the House serve their purpose of con-
centrating pubkic attention on the Sen
ate and quickening its action on the
tariff.
To Wuar Dip HE REFER?—“‘A pa
triot makes a better citizen than a
pessimist,” said President McKinley
in his speech at Philadelvhia. This is
taken to refer to Juohn Wanamaker,
who recently declare 1 his inability to
see evidences of prcsperity, but Mr.
Wanamaker is certain that the presi
dent did not have him in mind. Possi-
bly reference was being made to one
Major McKinley, as he was during the
life of the last administration.
Wuaar Mr. Reep Wounp Lige—
Mr. Reed may well envy the emperor
of Austria his power to dissolve the
session of the lower house of the Aus
trian Diet. The Diet wouldn’t be-
have, so the emperor sent the depu
ties home, and that is what Mr. Reed
would probably do with the House of
Representatives had he the power and
csonsulted his own wishes.
>te that it might
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-
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